[Black Agnes]

Ping.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Reminds me of the scene from the movie, “Sneakers.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bAa6gFvLs

[Lazamataz]

Just on the off-chance there is one single fact unknown about the domestic population.

I wish I could root for the NSA, I really do, but they have become the Orwellian enemy.

[FBD]

I feel safer already.

[tbw2]

So World War 2 message delivery messages are now the cutting edge of private communications.

[MeganC]

One-time cipher pads are still pretty safe so long as you just use them once.

[July4]

Our Marxist government is out to make slaves of us. There is absolutely no other explanation for this insanity. Edward Snowden is a hero. Every freedom-loving American should DEMAND that Mr. Snowden be welcomed home and absolved of all criminal charges.

Note to Rep. Peter King: You are dead wrong on this issue, and the Marxists will be coming after you as soon as they are through using you.

[polymuser]

“Quantum computers are extremely delicate, so if you don’t protect them from their environment, then the computation will be useless,"

Sounds like our uninformed voters. Or The One.

[SIRTRIS]

The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization by James Bamford mandate: 5 years ahead of the street technology

[gaijin]

They at the NSA are Their Own State and we are as foreign to them as, say, Morocco or Madagascar.

To them we are The Wallet.

The Founders would have been shocked at the mere concept of what they do everyday there.

[montanajoe]

If the potential exists then the USA must have the technology. Our enemies certainly wouldn't be scared off of going forward by the revelations of a traitor...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

What this needs is the agreement of several hundred very high volume data users to create massive random data flows to overflow even a massively parallel system.

That is, in effect, the NSA is hoping to develop a very fast brute force system. But if it tries to decrypt garbage, it must go all the way to the nth calculation to show that it is garbage, and even then it is never sure that it is garbage.

Eventually, maximum effort to produce minimal results will render it cost ineffective.

They are experiencing a similar problem right now by trying to monitor all communications all the time everywhere. So much garbage that anything of value in it is lost.

[Deek]

The irony of building a quantum computer for decryption/factoring is that the complexity with building the computer is entangling the bits, keeping the bits entangled, then "reading" the bits.

Once that problem is figured out, the technology can be fairly readily adapted to build quantum encryption that can't be broken by a quantum computer.

So once the problem is solved, the solution creates a new greater problem.

[PATRIOT1876]

When do we get to see the guy from the old Apple commercial on the large screen?

I’ll bring the sledgehammer....

[bgill]

seeks to build = already built 5 years ago and the $$$$$$$$ is a laundering scheme.